Every older generation has lots of loud people who think the latest generation is shiftless and lazy, and that the latest medium, tablets, books, TV, movies, smart phones, is dangerous and bad. It's no more true now than when books became popular.
It's sort of odd, when these cases go to court the victim is grilled about her sex life as though she doesn't have the right to choose her sex partners, while no one really considers the assailants. I'd be curious if this was a one time event or the one time they got caught. I suppose at least they haven't been accused of anything else in the last 5 years.
It's one thing to think "it will be fun and the victim will enjoy it" it's another to actually do it in spite of the victim's reactions. Not sure it would be better or worse, ethically, if the victim was passed out.
I question that the junior system, drafting kids and sending them to live in different cities for the good of the leagues, is a good thing for the players. These few were among the fortunate, they could make a living playing hockey after junior, and it still may have been bad for them. Some teams are or were known to have crazy hazing and bad internal culture. I'd think that would be the first thing to look into. At the least there should be some independent non-league oversight for the kids under 18. Supervising kids is really tough, though, most who do it just look for a way to say "everything's fine, nothing to see here."
